Seadrift – June 21, 2015, Letters to the Dolphin
Better late than never. This poem is to be published in a book: Eber & Wein Publishing,50 E. High St., New Freedom, PA 17349.
This poem is in memory of my late “Dad”, David Archie Williams, by his only daughter in a family of six sons.
TODAY
In my day and time, it was a Different “World”,
My Mama never left her nest;
She was a beautiful “pearl”.
She was an “Old Fashion” Mom, it’s true,
To her husband and kids too.
Dad was loving and
Kind as could be
A wonderful “Dad” was he.
In Today’s World there are
Many kids so sad,
They don’t even know
What man is their dad.
Dorothy Geraldine (Williams) Wilson
Seadrift
Nice Surprise on Front Beach
What a nice surprise to see the several large Nelson Tree Service trucks, including the bucket extension pull up to the King Fisher restrooms on June 17. The restroom area had become totally overgrown again with the scrubs and trees that have enjoyed all the rain of our wet Spring. Even though it rained hard off and on throughout the morning, the team of about twenty five men worked hard and did a great job. It was a lot of work! Now people can feel safe approaching the restroom area in the evenings and the area looks nice for all the visitors that will come on the 4th of July.
Victoria Electric Cooperative employee, Sam Neill, was there bright and early to direct the process and got permission from the corporate offices to bring Nelson Tree Service to help out our community again this year. The county was on hand to pick up some of the material that could not be shredded by Nelson and finish up the job. Many thanks to Victoria Electric, Nelson Tree Service and Commissioner Finster for sprucing up King Fisher Park! The residents and visitors to Port O’Connor really appreciate it!
Ron and Donna Arlitt
The Lions Den
The Apostle Paul has had more influence on the Western world and Christianity than most of us know, for Judeo-Christianity, which he sedulously spread throughout the world, is the bedrock of modern jurisprudence, morals and philosophy in the west, and in which, through their spiritual and mental power, and industry and justice, have literally over the past two thousand years created a new society, and advanced the cause of freedom. As we all know it was Moses who cried, “Proclaim Liberty throughout the land, unto the inhabitants thereof!” It was the first time in human history that such a proclamation was uttered, and the Apostle Paul proclaimed it anew and vehemently. Liberty, above all, has been the most profound ideal of Judeo-Christianity, liberty of mind and soul and body, a new concept among men. It is no wonder, then, that the foes of freedom first attack religion, which liberated mankind.
It may cheer many – and depress others – to realize that man never changes, and the exact same problems of Paul’s world are the same that confront us today. Cheer, in that man has an indomitable way of surviving his governments and his tyrants and surmounting them, and depressing that he never learns from his own experiences. As Aristotle said, long before Christ, a people who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. It is obvious that we are repeating it today.
Solomon said, “There is nothing new under the sun.” The Roman Empire was declining in the days of Paul as the American Republic is declining today – and for the very same reasons: permissiveness in society, immorality, the Welfare State, endless wars, confiscatory taxation, the brutal destruction of the middle class, cynical disregard of the established human virtues and principals and ethics, the pursuit of material wealth, the abandonment of religion, venal politicians who cater to the masses for votes, inflation, deterioration of the monetary system, bribes, criminality, riots, incendiarisms, street demonstrations, the release of criminals on the public in order to create chaos and terror, leading to a dictatorship “in the name of emergency,” the loss of masculine sturdiness and the feminization of the people, scandals in public office, plundering of the treasury, debt, and the attitude that “anything goes”, the tolerance of injustice and exploitation, bureaucracies and bureaucrats issuing evil “regulations” almost every week, the centralization of government, the public contempt for good and honorable men, and, above all, the philosophy that “God Is Dead” and that man is supreme.
Judeo-Christianity is facing its greatest test of history in these days, for in a great and terrible measure it has become secular and preaches “the Social Gospel” rather than the Gospel of Christ. Christ was not concerned with this world, which now so engrosses those who claim to be His followers, and repeatedly said that he would “create a new world”. He, you will notice, not we. He was not preoccupied with “social problems” and injustices. He constantly preached that justice and mercy would flow from a changed heart, and love, not by man’s laws and ordinances.
Man’s nature cannot be changed in any particular – except by the power of God and religion. All the “education” in secular institutions and all the secular exhortations will never succeed in civilizing man. As Christ said, “Who, by taking thought, can add one cubit to his stature?” No one, of course.
Danny Sheppard
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